Editing League of Nations mandate (section)

==List of mandates==
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! Class !! Mandate !! Territory !! Mandate Power
! Prior name !! Prior sovereignty !! style="width:50%" | Comments
! Current state !! class=unsortable| Document
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| rowspan=5 | '''A''' || rowspan=2 | [[Mandate for Syria and the Lebanon]] ||[[Greater Lebanon]]|| rowspan="2" |[[French Third Republic|France]]|| Ottoman sanjaks of [[Beirut vilayet|Beirut]], [[Tripoli Sanjak|Tripoli]], and [[Mount Lebanon Mutasarrifate|Mount Lebanon]]|| rowspan="5" | [[Ottoman Empire]] || 29 September 1923 – 24 October 1945. Joined the United Nations on 24 October 1945 as an independent state and Founding Member || [[Lebanon]] || rowspan=2 | [[File:Mandate for Syria and the Lebanon.djvu|100px]]
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|[[First Syrian Republic|Syria]]|| Ottoman sanjaks of [[Damascus Sanjak|Damascus]], [[Hauran Sanjak|Hauran]], [[Latakia Sanjak|Latakia]], [[Homs Sanjak|Homs]], [[Hama Sanjak|Hama]], [[Aleppo Sanjak|Aleppo]], and [[Zor Sanjak|Zor]]|| 29 September 1923 – 24 October 1945: This mandate included [[Hatay Province]] (a former Ottoman Alexandretta [[sanjak]]), which broke away from the mandate on 2 September 1938 to become a separate French protectorate, which lasted until Hatay Province was ceded to the new [[Turkey|Republic of Turkey]] on 29 June 1939. Joined the United Nations on 24 October 1945 as an independent state || [[Syria]]
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| rowspan=2 | [[Mandate for Palestine]] ||[[Mandatory Palestine]]|| rowspan="3" |[[United Kingdom]]|| Ottoman sanjaks of [[Mutasarrifate of Jerusalem|Jerusalem]], [[Nablus Sanjak|Nablus]], and [[Acre Sanjak|Acre]]
|| 29 September 1923 – 15 May 1948.<ref>{{cite web|title=Papers relating to the foreign relations of the United States, The Paris Peace Conference, 1919 Volume XIII, Annotations to the treaty of peace between the Allied and Associated Powers and Germany, signed at Versailles, June 28, 1919|url=http://digicoll.library.wisc.edu/cgi-bin/FRUS/FRUS-idx?type=goto&id=FRUS.FRUS1919Parisv13&isize=M&submit=Go+to+page&page=101|work=Foreign Relations of the United States|publisher=United States State Department|access-date=13 March 2011|date=June 28, 1919}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|title=Legal Consequences of the Construction of a Wall in the Occupied Palestinian Territory|url=http://www.icj-cij.org/docket/files/131/1671.pdf|work=Advisory Opinions|publisher=The International Court of Justice (ICJ)|access-date=13 March 2011|page=165|year=2004|quote=70. Palestine was part of the Ottoman Empire. At the end of the First World War, a class "A" Mandate for Palestine was entrusted to Great Britain by the League of Nations, pursuant to paragraph&nbsp;4 of Article&nbsp;22 of the Covenant|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100706021237/http://www.icj-cij.org/docket/files/131/1671.pdf|archive-date=6 July 2010}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|title=Italy Holds up Class A Mandates|url=https://query.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=9B0CEFDF1239EF3ABC4851DFB1668389639EDE|work=The New York Times|access-date=13 March 2011|date=July 20, 1922|quote=LONDON, July 19. – The A mandates, which govern the British occupation of Palestine and the French occupation of Syria, came today before the Council of the League of Nations.}}</ref> A [[United Nations Partition Plan for Palestine]] for peacefully dividing the remainder of the Mandate failed.<ref name="Pugh 321–343">{{Cite journal|last=Pugh|first=Jeffrey D.|date=2012-11-01|title=Whose Brother's Keeper? International Trusteeship and the Search for Peace in the Palestinian Territories|url=https://academic.oup.com/isp/article-abstract/13/4/321/1786157/Whose-Brother-s-Keeper-International-Trusteeship|journal=International Studies Perspectives|volume=13|issue=4|pages=321–343|doi=10.1111/j.1528-3585.2012.00483.x|issn=1528-3577}}</ref> The Mandate [[End of the British Mandate for Palestine|terminated]] at midnight between 14 May and 15 May 1948. On the evening of 14 May, the Chairman of the [[Jewish Agency for Israel|Jewish Agency for Palestine]] had declared the [[Israeli Declaration of Independence|establishment]] of the [[Israel|State of Israel]].<ref>[http://www.mfa.gov.il/MFA/Peace+Process/Guide+to+the+Peace+Process/Declaration+of+Establishment+of+State+of+Israel.htm Israel Ministry of Foreign Affairs: The Declaration of the Establishment of the State of Israel] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130116103234/http://www.mfa.gov.il/MFA/Peace+Process/Guide+to+the+Peace+Process/Declaration+of+Establishment+of+State+of+Israel.htm |date=2013-01-16 }}. May 14, 1948: Retrieved 28 January 2013.</ref> Following the [[1948 Palestine war|war]], 75% of the area was controlled by the new State of Israel.<ref name="OsmańczykMango2003">{{cite book|author1=Edmund Jan Osmańczyk|author2=Anthony Mango|title=Encyclopedia of the United Nations and International Agreements: G to M|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=fSIMXHMdfkkC&pg=PA1178|access-date=17 November 2011|year=2003|publisher=Taylor & Francis|isbn=978-0-415-93922-5|page=1178}}</ref> Other parts, until 1967, formed the [[West Bank]] of the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan and the [[All-Palestine Government]] under the [[Egypt]]ian-controlled [[Gaza Strip]].||[[Israel]]<br>[[Palestine]] ||rowspan=2 | [[File: Mandate for Palestine (legal instrument).png|100px]]
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|[[Emirate of Transjordan]]|| Ottoman sanjaks of [[Hauran Sanjak|Hauran]] and [[Karak Sanjak|Ma'an]]|| In April 1921, the [[Emirate of Transjordan]] was provisionally added as an autonomous area under the United Kingdom,<ref>[https://books.google.com/books?id=P4cjDhBXV-4C&pg=PA21 The Making of Jordan: Tribes, Colonialism and the Modern State, By Yoav Alon, Published by I.B.Tauris, 2007], {{ISBN|1-84511-138-9}}, p.&nbsp;21</ref><ref>[https://books.google.com/books?id=x7qEqVpq9poC&pg=PA89 Determining Boundaries in a Conflicted World: The Role of Uti Possidetis, By Suzanne Lalonde, Published by McGill-Queen's Press (MQUP), 2002], {{ISBN|0-7735-2424-X}}, pp.&nbsp;89–100</ref> and it became the independent [[Hashemites|Hashemite]] Kingdom of Transjordan (later [[Jordan]]) on 17 June 1946 upon joint ratification of the [[Treaty of London (1946)|Treaty of London of 1946]]. || [[Jordan]]
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| ''Indirect'' ||[[Mandatory Iraq]]|| Various Ottoman sanjaks|| The draft [[Mandate for Mesopotamia|British Mandate for Mesopotamia]] was not enacted and was replaced by the [[Anglo-Iraqi Treaty of 1922|Anglo-Iraqi Treaty]] of October 1922.{{sfn|Wright|1968|p=595}} Britain committed to act the responsibilities of a Mandatory Power in 1924.{{sfn|Wright|1968|p=593}} Iraq attained independence from the United Kingdom on 3 October 1932. || [[Iraq]] ||[[File: Anglo Iraq Treaty 1922.jpg|100px]]
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| rowspan=6 | '''B''' || Belgian Mandate for East Africa ||[[Ruanda-Urundi]]||[[Belgium]]|| rowspan="2" |[[German East Africa]]|| rowspan="6" |[[German Empire]] || From 20 July 1922 to 13 December 1946. Formerly two separate German protectorates, they were joined as a single mandate on 20 July 1922. From 1 March 1926 to 30 June 1960, Ruanda-Urundi was in administrative union with the neighbouring colony of the [[Belgian Congo]]. After 13 December 1946, it became a United Nations trust territory, remaining under Belgian administration until the separate nations of [[Rwanda]] and [[Burundi]] gained independence on 1 July 1962. || [[Rwanda]]<br>[[Burundi]] ||[[File: Belgian Mandate for East Africa.pdf |100px]]
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| British Mandate for East Africa{{sfn|Hall|1948|p=303}} ||[[Tanganyika Territory]]||United Kingdom|| From 20 July 1922 to 11 December 1946. It became a United Nations trust territory on 11 December 1946, and was granted internal self-rule on 1 May 1961. On 9 December 1961, it became independent while retaining the British monarch as nominal head of state, transforming into a republic on the same day the next year. On 26 April 1964, Tanganyika merged with the neighbouring island of [[Zanzibar]] to become the modern nation of [[Tanzania]]. || [[Tanzania]] ||''<small>Equivalent document as for Ruanda-Urundi, with all articles substantially the same</small>''{{sfn|Wright|1968|p=611}}
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| British Mandate for the Cameroons ||[[British Cameroon]]||United Kingdom|| rowspan="2" |[[Kamerun|German Kamerun]]|| Became part of the United Nations trust territories after World War II on 13 December 1946 || Part of [[Cameroon]] and [[Nigeria]] ||''<small>Equivalent document as for French Cameroons, with all articles substantially the same</small>''{{sfn|Wright|1968|p=616}}
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| French Mandate for the Cameroons ||[[French Cameroon]]||France|| Under a [[Resident minister|Resident]] and a [[Commissioner]] until 27 August 1940, then under a [[List of colonial governors of Cameroon|governor]]. Became part of the United Nations trust territories after World War II on 13 December 1946 || [[Cameroon]] ||[[File:French Mandate for the Cameroons.pdf |100px]]
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| British Mandate for Togoland ||[[British Togoland]]||United Kingdom|| rowspan="2" |[[Togoland|German Togoland]]|| British Administrator post filled by the colonial Governor of the British [[Gold Coast (British colony)|Gold Coast]] (present day [[Ghana]]) except 30 September 1920 – 11 October 1923 Francis Walter Fillon Jackson). Transformed on 13 December 1946 into a United Nations trust territory; on 13 December 1956 it ceased to exist as it became part of Ghana. || [[Volta Region]], [[Ghana]] ||''<small>Equivalent document as for French Togoland, with all articles substantially the same</small>''{{sfn|Wright|1968|p=616}}
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| French Mandate for Togoland ||[[French Togoland]]||France|| French Togoland under a Commissioner till 30 August 1956, then under a [[High commissioner|High Commissioner]] as the Autonomous Republic of [[Togo]] || [[Togo]] ||[[File:French Mandate for Togoland WDL11571.pdf |100px]]
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| rowspan=5 | '''C''' || Mandate for the German Possessions in the Pacific Ocean situated South of the Equator other than German Samoa and Nauru ||[[Territory of New Guinea]]||[[Australia]]|| rowspan="3" |[[German New Guinea]]|| rowspan="5" |[[German Empire]] || Included German New Guinea and "the group of islands in the Pacific Ocean lying south of the equator other than German Samoa and Nauru".{{sfn|Wright|1968|p=618}} From 17 December 1920 under an (at first Military) Administrator; after (wartime) Japanese/U.S. military commands from 8 December 1946 under UN mandate as North East New Guinea (under Australia, as administrative unit), until it became part of present [[Papua New Guinea]] at independence in 1975 || Part of [[Papua New Guinea]] ||''<small>Equivalent document as for Nauru, with all articles substantially the same</small>''{{sfn|Wright|1968|p=618}}
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| Mandate for Nauru ||[[History of Nauru#World War I to World War II|Nauru]]||United Kingdom|| British mandate, administered by Australia, New Zealand, and the United Kingdom. Became part of the United Nations trust territories after liberation from Japanese occupation in World War II || [[Nauru]] ||[[File:Mandate for Nauru WDL468.pdf |100px]]
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| Mandate for the German Possessions in the Pacific Ocean lying North of the Equator{{sfn|Hall|1948|p=307}} ||[[South Seas Mandate]]||[[Empire of Japan|Japan]]|| Known as the [[South Seas Mandate]]. Became part of the United Nations trust territories and administered by the United States after World War II || [[Palau]]<br>[[Marshall Islands]]<br>[[Federated States of Micronesia]]<br>[[Northern Mariana Islands]] ||''<small>Equivalent document as for Nauru, with all articles substantially the same</small>''{{sfn|Wright|1968|p=618}}
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| Mandate for German Samoa ||[[Western Samoa Trust Territory|Western Samoa]]||[[New Zealand]]||[[German Samoa]]|| From 17 December 1920 a League of Nations mandate, renamed Western Samoa (as opposed to [[American Samoa]]), from 25 January 1947 a United Nations trust territory until its independence on 1 January 1962 || [[Samoa]] ||''<small>Equivalent document as for Nauru, with all articles substantially the same</small>''{{sfn|Wright|1968|p=618}}
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| Mandate for German South West Africa ||[[South West Africa]]||[[Union of South Africa|South Africa]]<ref>Treaty of Peace and South West Africa Mandate Bill of 1919</ref>||[[German South West Africa]]|| From 1 October 1922, [[Walvis Bay]]'s administration (still merely having a [[Magistrate]] until its 16 March 1931 Municipal status, hence a [[Mayor]]) was also assigned to the mandate. || [[Namibia]] ||''<small>Equivalent document as for Nauru, with all articles substantially the same</small>''{{sfn|Wright|1968|p=618}}
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